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	<title>The ProGenealogists® Genealogy Blog &#187; Amanda Sims</title>
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	<description>Regular posts from each member of our corporate office in Salt Lake City. We hope you’ll notice just how passionate we are about research and about the extensive services we provide to our clients.</description>
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		<title>Source Envy</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2010/11/source-envy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Records]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel the need to briefly set the mental scene for this post. It seems for the most part that the posts on this blog are generated from the subject matter which the various authors are feasting on at the time they write their posts. Someone asked if I wouldn&#8217;t write my next post on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spelling</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2010/10/spelling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spelling variations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you weren&#8217;t aware&#8211; the 1899 Nashville City Directory offers some astute advice for researchers:

This advice is true on, oh, so many levels. I have had people tell me quite forcefully that they could not possibly be related to a certain individual because the other person&#8217;s surname was spelled differently. I&#8217;ve had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual Source: Medical Journals</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2010/03/unusual-source-medical-journals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genealogy sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genealogy tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical journals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[periodicals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love unusual and less used sources. They are often overlooked for a number of reasons including that they may not contain a lot of vital information. However, the information they do contain can still be vital to your research efforts, and so fascinating to read. If you are looking to put some “meat on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockholms Stadsarkiv</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2010/03/stockholms-stadsarkiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swedish Research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ancestors that lived in Stockholm and haven&#8217;t yet visited Stockholms Stadsarkiv you should take a look at the resources available there. Depending on the time period in which you are interested, you may just find the answers to some of your research questions on this site. In addition to offering indexes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Necessary, Possible, Probable or Christmas Lights?</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/12/what-is-neccessary-possible-probable-or-christmas-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vital Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I are currently moving and he is, unfortunately, often traveling for business. This presents some challenges as there are many things to do and he is only here occasionally to help. In a recent late night conversation over the phone he asked if I had put up Christmas lights yet. Silly me&#8211;all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You Mr. Tax Man!</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/10/thank-you-mr-tax-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death and taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mantalslängd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problem solving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It happens every year and for some, every quarter. The saying goes that there is nothing more certain than death and taxes. We all hate having the government reach into our pockets and take our cash, but for those of us who love genealogy and family history, the tax man can be a real boon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubly Difficult Research</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/10/doubly-difficult-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ProGenealogists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brick walls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burned counties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freemen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slave names]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slave narratives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slave owners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slaves]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently &#8220;over my head&#8221; in tracing the origins of some former slaves &#8211; that is, &#8220;over my head&#8221; in both the sense that slave research is difficult (emotionally and academically) and the research was even more complicated because of the specific goal the client had in mind.
While I can&#8217;t help anyone with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Family History</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/09/living-family-history/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/09/living-family-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grandfather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grandmother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to think a bit about interviewing relatives. My sister-in-law was quizzing me about the best way to get information from her grandfather about their family history the other night. I&#8217;ve also recently had the opportunity to sit down with my own grandmother, who is at the point in life where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answers! Answers! Answers!</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/09/answers-answers-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/09/answers-answers-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional genealogist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a professional genealogist, I&#8217;ve found that everyone I talk to wants answers. It seems like whenever I tell someone that I&#8217;m a professional genealogist, they immediately have a family problem that they think I should be able to solve for them on the spot. Well, just like the cure for the common cold, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think You Know Your Source?</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2009/08/think-you-know-your-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Sims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accuracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently looking for a death entry in an online index to Michigan deaths. Multiple searches in the county did not reveal a single entry of interest. Digging a little deeper into the index showed that there were actually no entries for that particular county for the years of interest in that database. Although [...]]]></description>
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